Why are many sololearners using the strangest unicode for their names?

Question

To be fancy? To be not as easily tagged? To raise a consciousness that we can choose from more than ASCII?

I'm seriously wondering...

Answer 1

HonFu
Or may be to make it harder for web scrapers? Lol, recently I managed to use bs4 in here and just to give a working example of that, I thought to scrap the SoloLearn's leaderboard and extract top 10 global leaders but guess what? I couldn't make it 'cause some had non-ASCII characters in their name 😑.
I tried several way but, ugh, couldn't help it. I had to drop that idea of extracting top 10.
Lol that's how my experience is with non-Ascii characters in names.

Answer 2

I don't use fancy Unicode because I don't even know how to use the damn things 😂.

Answer 3

I personally always liked that Old English style font. However I wrote my name both ways because the fancy font doesn't show up for some people.

At first I had the fancy font come first but then it was brought to my attention that it does make me hard to tag and so I switched it, putting the normal font first.

So there 😜😁

Answer 4

Hehe, that's very nice...

I vaguely remember tagging you successfully and being happy about it.

Answer 5

I genuinely feel bad if anyone tags my name! I chose this because I was bored.

Answer 6

I like to be tagged so i leave 2 normal letters so people can mention me, fancy? Mm.... nope. Bored? YES!!😁😁

Answer 7

HonFu 😂😆

Answer 8

Interesting!

Should I then for safety call myself Høňfű? 🤔😏

Answer 9

Coz they're kids